A cobbled lane of timber framed shopfronts and rendered Tudor fronts, climbing from Wensum Street past the thatched Briton's Arms.
What Elm Hill looks like
The lane is cobbled and runs uphill from Wensum Street to Princes Street, where stands at the top. Many of its frontages are Tudor, with timber framed upper floors and rendered walls painted in pale colours. Red and grey brick fronts sit among them, and flagged pavements run along both sides of the cobbles. Wall brackets carry lanterns at intervals along the frontages.
The Briton's Arms stands on the south-east side, three storeys and a cellar, with a thatched roof and a brick ridge chimney. Its white gable front has bracketed jetties on the first and second floors.
, at 41 and 43, is a pair of mostly rendered timber framed houses. They sit under a pantile roof, two storeys over an attic. Number 41 has a jettied upper floor with exposed studwork above a double shop front. Wrights Court opens off the lane as a small paved courtyard, with the Tea House in it.
The square has a large tree at its centre, with yellow and white fronts around it and a bench beneath the branches. At the bottom, St Simon and St Jude's church stands on the corner with Wensum Street. The north side of the lane runs parallel to the river Wensum.
Shot in Elm Hill
The 2007 film Stardust and the 2020 Netflix film Jingle Jangle both shot in the lane. Stardust added a thatched awning to the Briton's Arms and turned it into a tavern, while Jingle Jangle dressed the shopfronts as the main street of a fictional town.
Stardust, 2007
The Briton's Arms
Played The Slaughtered Prince
A thatched awning turned the coffee house into The Slaughtered Prince, the tavern in the 2007 film Stardust. The building stands on the south-east side of the lane, three storeys over a cellar.
Jingle Jangle, 2020
The lane's shopfronts
Played Cobbleton, a fictional town, a pseudo-Victorian era
The Netflix film dressed the shopfronts up the lane as the main street of Cobbleton, a fictional town. The snowball fight was filmed in summer with local extras and no real snow.
The Shambles is a narrow street of timber framed fronts with jettied floors that overhang the street by several feet, the closest match to the lane's frontages. Many of its buildings date from around 1350 to 1475, earlier than the lane's Tudor rebuilding, so it suits an earlier setting. The overhangs take sky out of a wide frame, so a street level shot holds the illusion best. Try searching jettied timber framed street now.
Lavenham has half-timbered medieval cottages, so a village there shows the same timber frame at a smaller scale. Parts of its Market Square were used in the 1968 film Witchfinder General. The square is open ground, so a tight shot up a single street is what keeps the illusion. Try searching half timbered medieval cottages now.
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